# deep state (hidden)

*Ordinarily means:* a network said to operate inside a state's institutions, pursuing its own agenda regardless of elected leaders

A collective self that reads the walls on it as set by an out-group inside its government, which its members cannot see and those they choose cannot reach.

- Computed level: L18 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [out-group](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-out-group.outside), [government](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-government.administrative), [see](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-see.visual), [choose](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-choose.decision), [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [power](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-power.over), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [inside](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-inside.spatial), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.spatial)

**Through:** The setter is placed inside the government but outside the boundary, and out of the reach of choosing; because it is read as unseen, no reading can confirm or clear it.

**Novel properties:**
- a setter read as unseen by definition
- a report no reading can check

## Examples
- The term translates the Turkish 'derin devlet', which gained wide use after the 1996 Susurluk car crash exposed links between officials and organised crime. *(politics)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-deep-state.hidden*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-deep-state.hidden.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*